Matter
Ocean Zones
Ocean terms
Ocean Currents
Miscellaneous
100
The smallest form of an element
What is an atom?
100
This zone has the most animals, hottest temperature, most sunlight, and lowest salinity?
What is the sunlight (epipelagic) zone?
100
Define salinity.
What is the measure of salt in water
100
This is the name of the largest current, which goes from the Gulf of Mexico to the northern coast of Europe?
What is the Gulf Stream?
100
In the following food chain, identify the producers, the consumers, and the decomposers: Cyanobacteria -> Copepod -> Jelllyfish -> Turtle -> Bacterioplankton
Producer: Cyanobacteria, Consumers: Copepod, Jellyfish, Turtle, Decomposer: Bacterioplankton
200
The smallest piece of a compound; can not be broken down any more without becoming a different substance.
What is a molecule?
200
These are the names of the three zones, from lowest depth (closest to the surface) to highest depth (deepest).
What is Sunlight (or epipelagic), Twilight (or Mesopelagic), Midnight (or Bathypelagic)?
200
Define a tide.
What is the movement of water caused by the moon's gravity?
200
This type of current runs vertical (up and down) and is primarily caused by differences in temperature and density.
What is deep ocean current?
200
This is the primary cause of tsunamis.
What is underwater earthquakes?
300
Atoms are made up of these three types of particles.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
300
An animal which crawls along the ocean floor, like a crab, would be found at which zone on the Abyssal Plain?
What is the midnight (bathypelagic) zone?
300
These are the three basic forms of motion in the water
What are currents, waves, and tides?
300
This type of current runs horizontally near the surface of the water, and is driven by a variety of factors, including temperature, the Earth's rotation, and the winds.
What is surface current?
300
This type of plate boundary is generally on the ocean floor, and involves two plates separating. At the plate separation, new crust is formed.
What are divergent boundaries.
400
This state of matter has a set volume and a set shape; it's molecules vibrate but do not move freely.
What is solid?
400
Describe the adaptations of an animal in the twilight zone?
What are big eyes, small, dark, and thin, large teeth, need to adjust to higher pressure and less plant life, etc.?
400
The name for tiny, oxygen-producing organisms that float along the surface of the water. Examples include diatoms (in the protista kingdom) and cyanobacteria (in the monera kingdom)
What is phytoplankton?
400
Between current, waves, and tide, this is the type of movement that is caused almost exclusively by wind.
What are waves?
400
This type of rock is formed under heavy pressure and heat.
What are metamorphic rocks.
500
Describe the volume and shape of air.
What is an indefinite volume (it will fill any space it is put in) and an indefinite shape (it will take the shape of the container it is in)?
500
These are the reasons it gets colder as you go further down into the ocean
What is because there is less sunlight, and because hot water rises while cold water sinks?
500
Describe whether the ocean is a mixture or a solution, and why.
What is a mixture; to be a solution, everything has to be perfectly even. In the ocean, there is more salt at the bottom of the ocean, there is dirt and sediment mixed in, and there are organisms at different locations.
500
Surface currents in the northern hemisphere primarily go (clockwise or counterclockwise). They go the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere.
What is clockwise.
500
Describe the process leading to sedimentary rocks forming
Rocks weather and erode. Sediment is deposited in the water. After enough sediment has been deposited, the layers are cemented into solid rock.
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